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Foreword Foreword The political and scholarly debate about migration-related issues is ridden with com- plexity. When migration law and policy are addressed within the context of the European Union, the complexity increases even further. The Study Group on the Evolving European Migration Law and Policy, set up within the ambit of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), gave us the opportunity to study the complexity of the evolving EU migration policy, to tease out core theoretical issues, to call into question existing paradigms, and to comment on unresolved institutional issues and empirical questions. The articles in this special issue show the importance of rethinking existing inter- pretive frameworks, for these are the conceptual maps that orient policy makers and guide researchers in framing research questions and analysing empirical findings. In particular, Dora Kostakopoulou and Robert Thomas seek to unearth the hidden con- nections between exclusive territoriality, national land ownership and asylum policy. By so doing, they examine the role played by the territorial face of nationalism in creating and sustaining the perception of asylum seekers as ‘a problem’, the expand- ing detention regime in the UK and asylum seekers’ social exclusion and stigmati- sation. Essentially, Kostakopoulou and Thomas http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Migration and Law Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1388-364X
eISSN
1571-8166
DOI
10.1163/1571816041518787
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Abstract

Foreword The political and scholarly debate about migration-related issues is ridden with com- plexity. When migration law and policy are addressed within the context of the European Union, the complexity increases even further. The Study Group on the Evolving European Migration Law and Policy, set up within the ambit of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), gave us the opportunity to study the complexity of the evolving EU migration policy, to tease out core theoretical issues, to call into question existing paradigms, and to comment on unresolved institutional issues and empirical questions. The articles in this special issue show the importance of rethinking existing inter- pretive frameworks, for these are the conceptual maps that orient policy makers and guide researchers in framing research questions and analysing empirical findings. In particular, Dora Kostakopoulou and Robert Thomas seek to unearth the hidden con- nections between exclusive territoriality, national land ownership and asylum policy. By so doing, they examine the role played by the territorial face of nationalism in creating and sustaining the perception of asylum seekers as ‘a problem’, the expand- ing detention regime in the UK and asylum seekers’ social exclusion and stigmati- sation. Essentially, Kostakopoulou and Thomas

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European Journal of Migration and LawBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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